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His 2024 considerations are less about logic or persuasion and more about personality.

The broken-gadget era is upon us.

If you give a horse a trophy, will he even know he raced?

Through verse, we can perhaps come closest to capturing events that exist beyond our capacity to describe.

Medieval people had a lot of leprosy. So did their pet squirrels.

Biden’s speech about anti-Semitism is a test of courage as well as compassion.

Just what the college unrest needed: political theater

PEN America and the authoritarian spirit

Walter Kirn and the empty politics of defiance

Jane Schoenbrun, the director of the unsettling new film I Saw the TV Glow, has some ideas.

Russian mercenaries are wringing wealth and political leverage out of the Sahel.

Rescheduling weed will clear the way for scientists to study it more directly.

If the former president really did order an assassination—as his lawyers argue he could—does anyone believe it would cost him his supporters?

Devastating floods across Kenya, a pagan fire festival in Scotland, antler gathering in Wyoming, pro-Palestinian demonstrations at many American colleges, and much more

American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.

The bird-flu panic is getting out of hand.

Sixty years ago, Pauline Kael said that the movies were going to pieces. In a sense, she was right.

Chaos in the streets—real, imagined, or exaggerated—is never to an incumbent’s advantage.

In its third season, the show faces the failures of late-night comedy head-on.

He can’t even seem to stay awake for his own trial.

But are they really such a good idea?

Some scientists are starting to reopen a provocative debate: Are plants intelligent?

One out of every 50 babies born in the U.S. was conceived via IVF. Why is the industry so poorly regulated?

An uninhibited quest for authenticity sounds great. But if that just means acting out, you’re unlikely to be so happy.

I argued that Jens Söring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades in prison. Then I started having doubts about the case.

Literary treasures are too often hidden away from the public—but the world of private collecting isn’t all bad.

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

Like Nixon before him, Trump could use campus protests to further stoke an already polarized electorate.

America’s favorite robot company has perfected the art of freaking people out.

How demographic change is scrambling the geography of the 2024 presidential race